Just Above Sunset
Volume 5, Number 10
March 11, 2007

Little Tokyo Gardens

 The world as seen from Just Above Sunset -

"Notes on how things seem from out here in Hollywood..."

Little Tokyo Gardens

Seriyu-en (Garden of the Clear Stream) - Takeo Uesugi, 1979 (also known as the James Irvine Garden) - 244 South San Pedro Street, behind the Japanese American Community and Cultural Center -

Background information here -

    Seiryu-en is not to be viewed from the outside, like Riyoan-ji, the famed karasansui (rock and sand) garden in Kyoto. Instead of designing a shakkei or "borrowed scenery" garden, in which the background in incorporated into the garden's design, Uesugi planted redwoods and other trees along the edge of Seiryu-en to screen the surrounding buildings, isolate the garden and intensify the sense of enclosure while suggesting that a forest extends beyond. Indeed, Seiryu-en is a shuyu or stroll garden, combining long and compressed vistas, with places to stop, pause and reflect along a winding path of decomposed granite, beaten earth and asymmetrically aligned stepping stones.

Seriyu-en (Garden of the Clear Stream) - Takeo Uesugi, 1979 (also known as the James Irvine Garden) - 244 South San Pedro Street
Seriyu-en (Garden of the Clear Stream) - Takeo Uesugi, 1979 (also known as the James Irvine Garden) - 244 South San Pedro Street
Seriyu-en (Garden of the Clear Stream) - Takeo Uesugi, 1979 (also known as the James Irvine Garden) - 244 South San Pedro Street

Blooms in the adjacent plaza -

Blooms in the adjacent plaza -
Blooms in the adjacent plaza -

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These were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

The original large-format raw files are available upon request.

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Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:30 pm Pacific Time

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